Implementing an Automated Parking System using a PLC

My 3 main concerns to design and implement this project were:
1- SELECTING AN INDUSTRY RECOGNIZABLE PROJECT: Implementing an Automated Parking System using a PLC
2- System Specification: This PLC based system keeps track of 16 cars in the parking area. It shows the number unoccupied lots, automatically raises the Gate arm to allow cars into and out of the parking lot. It keeps track of amount of time a car is parked, and shows current and exit Time/Date and displays them on an HMI or a WinCC based graphical device (PC's monitor). It calculates cost of parking for each car parked in the garage. When amount is paid, the parking operator depresses a paid-button, the exit arm gate is raised, and one unit is added to the total number of vacant cars in the Parking lot.
3- Documenting the project: The text explains how to design the related hardware (schematic diagrams of the hardware is given) and explains the control software in detail. An email address is provided in the text by which you can request the main control software to be emailed to you.
What is the main reason for you to purchase this title? Frankly, by writing small programs to learn how to use a PLC's instructions is for the time you are taking an introductory course in a collage to learn how to start programming a PLC and to do the exercises , BUT when you are applying for a job as a PLC programmer, the employer will give you a Project Scope and will expect you to read and understand it, and if you do not have any good question to ask, TO DO IT. I have come up with a solution for those who have only an intermediate level of knowledge on programming any type of a PLC but want to learn how to take a relatively complex project specification and turn it into a working PLC control program. The text assumes you have an intermediate level of background with programming any brand of a PLC- perhaps you are a mechanical or Process Engineer and you need to learn how to program a typical PLC to do some serious control programming similar to the ones usually employers will ask electrical techs or Engineers to do in a PLC based automated field. in this project the control PLC Program has to control 16 toggle switches , 32 LEDs, a break-beam sensor (IR), two arm gate DC motors, 4 limit switches, a 2-digit LED numerical display , and to establish communication between the PLC and an HMI or PC display devices in harmony! I assume he who can come up with a control program as a solution for this project, he defiantly can do any other project which is even much more complex than this EASILY! Generating a ladder logic program for this project requires you to know what you are doing otherwise, it will not work right! In PLC programming business, you have to have a complete "self-confidence" on yourself that "you can do it" When applying for a job.You can only emit that "self-confidence" when you believe in yourself truly, BUT how can you achieve that "self-confidence"? By defending your programming knowledge not just by talking, BUT by proving it. You must show your future employer that you can handle the job of writing at least a fairly complex PLC program in few hours. That knowledge can not be achieved unless you had done a few successful projects already. You can purchase my text and just use a typical simulator software and write your own program, simulate it and then compare its performance with my solution and LEARN! Your learning process will start as soon as you even start reading the text. And then in your "Resume", you can add the sentence: " I am looking for an entry level job in programming PLCs and the most complex program I have done is to write a PLC program to control an Automated Parking System using STEP7 software and S7-300 PLC with all its related monitoring equipments such as a typical HMI and a WinCC based PC display which worked according to its predefined hardware specification.". And watch your future employer's face and his reaction!